From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262598AbTJUBLA (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:11:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262775AbTJUBLA (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:11:00 -0400 Received: from wblv-241-59.telkomadsl.co.za ([165.165.241.59]:59010 "EHLO nosferatu.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262598AbTJUBK5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:10:57 -0400 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 003 release From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@gentoo.org To: Greg KH Cc: clemens@dwf.com, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, KML , reg@orion.dwf.com In-Reply-To: <20031021005025.GA28269@kroah.com> References: <20031017055652.GA7712@kroah.com> <200310171757.h9HHvGiY006997@orion.dwf.com> <20031017181923.GA10649@kroah.com> <20031017182754.GA10714@kroah.com> <1066696767.10221.164.camel@nosferatu.lan> <20031021005025.GA28269@kroah.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-XyRisxYwWMVVKQvdgPe5" Message-Id: <1066698679.10221.178.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 03:11:19 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-XyRisxYwWMVVKQvdgPe5 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 02:50, Greg KH wrote: > > Three questions if you do not mind: > >=20 > > 1) Is it possible to maintain naming of tarball/version ? Meaning, > > say we forget about the 003 version, could the next be 0.4, or even > > 0.3.1 or whatever ? Just changing makes trying to keep packages > > sane a hassle. Thanks :) >=20 > The naming will be consistant from now on. Next release will be 004, > followed by 005, and so on. Remember, version numbers mean nothing :) >=20 Well, if you had an 0.2 already, 003 sorda comes and screw the pooch=20 (if trying to work with a package manager - although it seems we are OK with ours seeing 003 as the later) :) > > If not, any idea if/when udev will start following official > > libsysfs? Yes, not a biggie, but it would be nice to have > > sysfsutils its own package :) >=20 > I just got a patch today from Dan that merged the latest version of > libsysfs into udev. It's in the udev bk tree already. libsysfs will > always be a copy in the udev tree, as udev links statically, and it > keeps the build process and debug process much easier. >=20 > sysfsutils can still be its own package, other programs are starting to > use libsysfs already. >=20 Ok, ill have a look at the bk tree at som stage, thanks. > > 3) Any plans to have namedev support wildcarts ? Like: > >=20 > > dsp*:root:audio:0660 > > audio*:root:audio:0660 > > midi*:root:audio:0660 > > mixer*:root:audio:0660 >=20 > Yes, I would love to support that. Care to send a patch? :) >=20 :P I wont promise, as my schedule is a bit tight, but I'll send along if I get to cook something up. > Of course you need a kernel patch for the sound class that is only > available in my kernel tree right now for sound devices to work with > udev... >=20 Need help testing ? :) (Yes, I am a lazy bastard, and a patch against test8 would help if you needed the testing) Thanks, --=20 Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --=-XyRisxYwWMVVKQvdgPe5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/lIe3qburzKaJYLYRArJvAKCBDdtgZAH/C3SxO5f85lYqMZ/oMwCgm5P7 31BGsgMvUSp5hG53/KVhUpY= =NIAm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-XyRisxYwWMVVKQvdgPe5--